Accolades and Honors

U.S. News Best Colleges guide highlights Wagner in its lead story — Wagner ranked among the top 7 colleges in the country for ‘Programs to Look For’ and #28 on regional universities list.

Wagner College was featured, once again, in the Princeton Review’s “Best 379 Colleges” guide. Special kudos went to the college’s theater program and campus newspaper, both of which were ranked among the top 20 in the nation.

Wagner College has won White House community service honors for the eighth year in a row (December 2014).

Wagner College is ranked in the Top 15% in Washington Monthly's 2012 master’s universities rankings — up from its Top 20% placement last year. The rankings are based on our contribution to the public good in three broad categories: Social Mobility, Research and Service.

Wagner College’s Community Engagement Classification, first awarded in 2008 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, was renewed in January 2015. Wagner is one of only 6 institutions in New York City currently recognized with the classification.

Wagner College won the second annual Higher Education Civic Engagement Award, given by the Washington Center for Internships & Academic Seminars.

Wagner College ranked very high on the list of colleges chosen by students who were admitted to more than one school, according to the 2015 Parchment Student Choice College Rankings. Wagner ranked #6 on the list of 261 schools granting master’s degrees, and #91 on the overall list of 726 institutions nationwide.

For the second year in a row, Wagner College appeared on the Forbes 2014 Top Colleges list, produced in partnership with the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. The Forbes list emphasizes “output over input,” looking at things like graduation rates and alumni salaries rather than incoming freshmen SAT scores.

Money magazine released its first-ever national ranking of best-value colleges — and Wagner College ranked in the top third among all colleges and universities across the country, big and small, public and private, Ivy and otherwise.

The salaries of Wagner College alums ranked #14 among grads of colleges and universities in New York State, according to PayScale’s 2014-15 College Salary Report. Wagner College ranked 61st nationwide for Return On Investment among private nonprofits.

Wagner College has been ranked among the Highest ROI Colleges in New York state by the nonprofit organization Affordable Colleges Online. Wagner was one of just 84 colleges and universities statewide that were tagged for their high Return On Investment.

The National League for Nursing named Wagner College’s Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing a 2012-2016 Center of Excellence in Nursing Education — one of only 17 collegiate nursing programs in the U.S. so designated.

Wagner College's Education Department passed a rigorous inspection by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, winning reaccreditation through 2019.

G.I. Jobs magazine ID's Wagner as a Military Friendly School for the 2nd year in a row; list recognizes schools "that are doing the most to embrace America’s military service members and veterans as students."

For the first time, Wagner College appeared on Kiplinger’s list of the top 100 best values in private universities, published in the December 2010 issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.

Wagner was ranked among the Top 40 master's-granting colleges and universities in the United States for undergraduate Study Abroad participation in 2010.

A Wagner College course conducted simultaneously in two classrooms on two continents won the American Council on Education's “Bringing the World into the Classroom” competition.

Wagner College makes CosmoGIRL! list of the Top 100 Co-Ed Colleges in the country (2007) in recognition of excellent women's sports, leadership opportunities, and intimate class sizes.

A first-year interdisciplinary learning community is cited as a model of its type by an Association of American Colleges and Universities science program.

In May 2005, Wagner College’s Board of Trustees voted to make an institutional commitment to Project Pericles, choosing an educational model designed for “social responsibility and civic concern” that would impact all campus constituents.

TIME MAGAZINE 'COLLEGE OF THE YEAR' FINALIST, 2001. Wagner College was one of the four finalists in the liberal arts colleges category for Time magazines' 2001 "College of the Year" accolade. That year's distinction was especially valuable to Wagner, because the focus was on "colleges that know how to help newcomers survive and thrive." Wagner College was selected as a finalist because of its first-year program of small, interdisciplinary learning communities that give incoming freshman a "home" within the college from day one. The College of the Year results were published in Time magazine's Sept. 10, 2001 issue. They were overshadowed by the tragic events that unfolded the next day: the terrorists attacks that, a decade later, are still referred to simply as "9/11".